CNG 87, Lot: 259. Estimate $300. Sold for $286. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.71 g, 12h). “Imitative series”. Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; monogram to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung, group XV, 1160 (V CG4/R 933); Lukanc 418 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Tübingen 948 (same dies). Good VF, toned.

From the MIT Collection.